| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Alison L. Hepler. Women in Labor: Mothers, Medicine and Occupational Health in the United States, 1890–1980. (Women and Health.) Columbus: Ohio State University Press. 2000. Pp. xii, 177. Cloth $47.50, paper $18.95.

Allison L. Hepler's book begins with a look at the efforts of Progressive reformers who fought for women's protective legislation regarding hours, night labor, and other working conditions. Much has been written over the last decade, particularly by feminist scholars evaluating the advantages of the emphasis on women's difference as a vehicle for building the regulatory state. But this book adds to our understanding of social reform by taking the long view, over the course of most of the twentieth century. By studying the shifts from an approach that harnessed societal expectations about gender to the crusade for occupational health, to a more individualist focus, buttressed by new feminist ideals, Hepler shows both the gains and the losses for women that have accompanied the change. . . .

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